The Path By The Creek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDD EEBFBFGG HHIJKJLL MMNONOPP QQBNBNRR SSNTNTUU VVNNNNWW NNXLXLYY ZZA2OA2OBB B2B2VC2VC2VVThere is a path that leads | A |
Through purple iron weeds | A |
By button bush and mallow | B |
Along a creek | C |
A path that wildflowers hallow | B |
That wild birds seek | C |
Roofed thick with eglantine | D |
And grape and trumpet vine | D |
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This side blackberries sweet | E |
Glow cobalt in the heat | E |
That side a creamy yellow | B |
In summertime | F |
The pawpaws slowly mellow | B |
And autumn's prime | F |
Strews red the Chickasaw | G |
Persimmon brown and haw | G |
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The glittering dragon fly | H |
A wing d flash goes by | H |
And tawny wasp and hornet | I |
Seem gleams that drone | J |
The beetle like a garnet | K |
Slips from the stone | J |
And butterflies float there | L |
Spangling with gold the air | L |
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Here the brown thrashers hide | M |
The chat and cat bird chide | M |
The blue kingfisher houses | N |
Above the stream | O |
And here the heron drowses | N |
Lost in his dream | O |
The vireo's flitting note | P |
Haunts all the wild remote | P |
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And now a cow's slow bell | Q |
Tinkles along the dell | Q |
Where breeze dropped petals winnow | B |
From blossomy limbs | N |
On waters where the minnow | B |
Faint twinkling swims | N |
Where in the root arched shade | R |
Slim prisms of light are laid | R |
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When in the tangled thorn | S |
The new moon hangs a horn | S |
Or 'mid the sunset's islands | N |
Guides a canoe | T |
The brown owl in the silence | N |
Calls and the dew | T |
Beads here its orbs of damp | U |
Each one a firefly lamp | U |
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Then when the night is still | V |
Here sings the whippoorwill | V |
And stealthy sounds of crickets | N |
And winds that pass | N |
Whispering through bramble thickets | N |
Along the grass | N |
Faint with far scents of hay | W |
Seem feet of dreams astray | W |
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And where the water shines | N |
Dark through tree twisted vines | N |
Some water spirit dreaming | X |
Braids in her hair | L |
A star's reflection seeming | X |
A jewel there | L |
While all the sweet night long | Y |
Ripples her quiet song | Y |
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Would I could imitate | Z |
O path thy happy state | Z |
Making my life all beauty | A2 |
All bloom and beam | O |
Knowing no other duty | A2 |
Than just to dream | O |
And far from pain and woe | B |
Lead feet that come and go | B |
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Leading to calm content | B2 |
O'er ways the Master went | B2 |
Through lowly things and humble | V |
To peace and love | C2 |
Teaching the lives that stumble | V |
To look above | C2 |
Forget the world of toil | V |
And all its sad turmoil | V |
Madison Julius Cawein
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